joe...awaken....light and airy..check how they were made... similar to your rice puff crackers .hey i had brown rice puffs cereal..made in usa for breakfast... and i have the brown rice cracker in the pantry... i cannot force you to see...you have to see yourself.. .i think zen..because the artist makes an artwork that "sails through the sky and flies with the wind" ..in tune with mother nature,... all is zen when i see mother nature involved. .i hear the dinner gong. .must way. .take it easy joe.
.merle Merle, I took a look but find nothing of Zen there. The work appears quite cerebral, geometric, and blunt or dull to me, and I sense no echoes from Buddha Nature, nor anything of the Wabi-Sabi aesthetic. Also, I garner no facets of the richness of biological Nature nor physical Nature exemplified or hinted-at. Not even the Jewel-Net of Indra comes to mind, as there are no reflecting elements anywhere in any nodes of the nets here. But I see "echoes" instead of large radar dishes; large radio telescope dishes; and, still-tethered research balloons being filled with helium. And possibly some trapeze artists' nets, billowing in the wind after the Big Top has blown down in a storm. Or Mars-descent parachutes for spacecraft. None of these things puts me in mind of No-Mind, nor Buddha Nature, and so they do not bring to mind "Zen" to me. Not at all. The scale and "incidental" public-exposure (indifferent display) of the works, I would say, is antithetical to the Wabi-Sabi definition. Will you tell us what you find of zen in them, which you mention? Please be very explicit with me, as I am trying to learn what other artists see, when/where I don't, or I don't yet. TNX. (my Lundberg Family Organic Brown Rice puffed rice-crackers are light and airy; they perfectly well TASTE of Zen though, to me). --Joe > Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: > > light and airy..very zen..merle > > > > >http://www.echelman.com/site/portfolio.html
